My main linkage to Existentialism is my questions about the existence oe non-existence of god. I am leaning to non-existence but I think there had to be some sort of creator. Hard for me to reconcil the two ways that I think.

THE EXISTENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE As identified by David E. Roberts in Existentialism and Religious Belief * (1959) Oxford University Press; codified and somewhat updated [and personalized for her own use]** by Jamarian1. Existentialism warns against worshiping science. a...

I spent many nights as a child trying to figure out the meaning of my life. I spent nights in the dark looking out the window...sudenly in the still of that moment I felt touched by the very meaning of that life. I never heard a word, nothing could answer my questions, but...

As I sit here drunk and contemplative I also wonder why the earth's 1000+ religions and scientists have not reached a compromising solution to the problem of existence. I myself have figured out the meaning of life some time ago.The meaning of life is Life. If...

His existential angst is based on his relationship to a deity that precludes choices . Damnation or salvation.
That's awfully reductionist.
But I respect the conflicts he had.
When you throw a belief in a deity into the mix, doesn't it just smack of predestination, no choice...

Fellow beings,First of all: English is not my native language, so if you happen to come across rather unnaturally build sentences, well, then you know why.Actually, I do not specifically want to adress something...I just want to circle around the subject of existentialism, let my...

I have been an existentialist for many, many years.
When we are honest with ourselves, contemplating our existence, we find oursleves isolated, alone with the uncertainty and apparent lack of meaning. But it is not neccessarily true that there is no meaning, it is that...

The first time I heard the term existentialiasm was while in deep therapy with a psychologist. He told me that I had an exististentialistic style of thinking and I had no idea what he was even talking about. I was just thinking like I have always thought throughout my life...

to be honest, i'd really love to say im a recovered existentialist. the truth is, i am, at least partly. im not trying to kill myself anymore. not today anyway, and probably not tomorrow. though it wouldnt take much.
i'd like to write a great story, and i could, if i only cared...

my particular interest is in the subject of grief, and i completely believe that the way grief gets reconciled is to find a meaning for it. whether it fits into one's original spiritual/philosophical story or belief system is irrelevant.... maybe the story will have...

So I've embarked on this journey. I think I've figured out what truly has meaning for me. But not sure exactly how to get to where I want to go. So far I've been burning too many bridges and not building enough new ones. Sometimes I fear that I may...

My name is Josef Green. I don't think my experience can really be summed up in one blog post. I've been trying to write about it for over two years now on lonewolfninja.wordpress.com
I'm 20 years old. I currently serve in the United States Navy as an IT in Italy, but...

I'd like to start by asking has anyone else tried, and maybe succeeded, in encountering nothing on purpose? I think I managed it once, but it was under circumstances that don't usually occur in my life.
I took an existentialism class in college and was completely uninterested at...

The best existentialist movie I've seen is Port Djema. I don't think this film has been issued on DVD or VHS, unfortunately. But it is probably occasionally still shown at film festivals. Anyhoo, I was stunned by this movie. It's filmed in Africa somewhere, and is about...

A few weeks ago, I decided to look up the word "existensialism" out of curiosity. What I saw in the results had completely enlightened me. After reading several results from several different internent sources, I realized that this philosophy described the way I viewed the world...

ive always dwelt on this feeling but only recently has it been more prominent than ever.
i go out, i smile, i laugh, i feel happy. i come home, im alone, and everything iv done that day suddenly feels meaningless, trivial.
im not a sad person, i have problems like everyone else...

Smoky my cat went and got herself pregnant and for the last few days she has acted odd. She tried to climb in my sock drawer last night and then crawled under my bed covers which she has never done before.
She finally laid down on the bed by me last night as I was looking...

I was actually looking for an existentialist chat room, because it hadn't occurred to me to look for "experiences".
But I am very proud of myself, because it is my first time looking for something like this, and I think I did well. :)
If this is usable, time will tell, but I like...

If a singer cannot sing then the singer has to find a new identity and new purpose in life.
I have been a driven and hard working individual battered by meaningless random events leading me to deeply question my identity and place in society.
If I cannot do what I used to do then...

Found this site and forum while searching for Existentialist forums which are about as elusive as a perfect or final definition of Existentialism itself. Aside from forums full of college students trying to understand what they're studying because it's part of their course...

i have been struggling with how to live an authentic life and not alienate others. i sit now, on a friday night (peer-pressure at 26?) bec i am terrified of experiencing with my friends the rejection as i have received as of late from my family. yet this is no sob...

I believe in the absolute freedom of humans. Even with a gun to your head you are merely coerced towards one option.
I do not believe in a soul or God. They are unnecessary distractions from reality.
I believe life has no inherent purpose or value.
I believe that we must find...

It has no physical components. Our physical, finite terms and rules don't apply to it. It's something human beings experience individually, as far as we can see, in this physical, finite experience of the world. But since consciousness is not part of this physical realm, those...

That's the part of existentialism that makes me really happy. Existentialism says everything we do is motivated by a choice. Everything happens because we choose that thing to happen. Blaming problems on God is just complete and simple cowardice.

There used to be a time when I believed in God.
Yes, it's true. I didn't go to church and wasn't outwardly religious, but inside I felt there was some sort of being 'out there' that guided us all and provided our lives with a sense of purpose.
And then stuff happens, as always...

The angels of God or perhaps even God himself gave the gift of tongues during fervent prayer as church members prayed over me. Nothing came to me and I felt the pressure to produce something that didn't exist at all; I began to speak jibberish. Shortly there after I read Camus...

Hello everyone ,
Firstly I'd really like to say what a fantastic (and important) site I think this is. As a new member I've taken great joy in reading through the very interesting and hugely insightful posts I've come across already.
My name is Perry and I'm a filmmaker...

I resist aligning myself to a philosophy of life but existentialism is so absurd it has always been my favourite.
Four either/or paradoxesLife vs Death - I don't accept my inevitable death or I wouldn't waste my time doing stuff that doesn't add to the quality of my life...

and the mystery and the sense of awe that once so consummed me as a child now so derided by the adult life ive grown into and secretly despise--hoping that change is around the bend, over the river and through my mind.
i wondered, as i sat...

had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the...

Many years ago, in a restaurant with my friends, we discussed philosophy.
At some point, one of my friends exclaimed "Well, you're an existentialist!".
My older brother was a student at a Jesuit college when I was a pre-teen. I'd tear through his library. Dostoevsky, Turgenev...

Like... I owe you an explaination? I don't owe anyone. Society was awful to me. Religion failed me and so did my peers. often and frequently. I aws bullied awfully and now it turns back around and asks me why It owes me my social security check
Life itself was not a gift, it was...

I hope someone in this forum can help me.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood, but existentialism tells us that human reason is inadequate to understand the world, that it only replaces the outside reality with a different inner one.
But because of my training, I can't...

I understand consciousness
I understand everything
The answer to life is so frighteningly, hilariously, ridiculously simple. I have no more questions. I'm done. I reached the finish line. At 24 years old. This was a ten year process. Of questioning God and religion and...

Last Saturday I was on a senior center trip to a mill. Usually these trips are fun. But on this one, the driver/tour guide told us about another trip where someone got left behind. The van did not go back to pick her up. I asked him what happened then? And he said, "Well...